Jack Schlossberg Shares Tatiana Schlossberg’s Final Words Before Death

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Jack Schlossberg is holding sister Tatiana Schlossberg’s final words close to his heart.  

Following the death of Caroline Kennedy’s youngest daughter on December 30th after a fight with leukemia, the political commentator—who is currently campaigning for congress—revealed his sister’s final words to him.

Jack shared with CBS News Sunday Morning on March 1st that his mother continues to support his campaign, and her final words to him were, ‘You better win!’

“No one knew me better,” he added, “and I knew no one better than her.”

Jack, age 33, also talked about growing up with his sister Tatiana and their older half-sister, Rose Schlossberg, Caroline’s daughter with her husband, Edwin Schlossberg.

He joked that growing up with two older sisters was tough. They were always critical, never letting him off easy. He said they constantly found fault with his choices and made him feel like he could never do anything right.

Honestly, they really shaped me into the person I am today. I’ve learned so much from them about strength and resilience. It’s also opened my eyes to things I hadn’t considered before – like my own privilege as a man, and how the world sometimes favors certain behaviors and people. It’s made me much more aware and, I think, a better person for it.

He also expressed his commitment to being a wonderful uncle to Tatiana’s children, 3-year-old Edwin and 15-month-old Josephine, whom she shares with her husband, George Moran. When asked why babies cry, beyond being tired, hungry, or unwell, he playfully suggested it might be because they miss Uncle Jack, a reason he joked many people overlook.

Jack’s comments come after his family shared the news of Tatiana’s Dec. 30 death. She was 35.

The family of environmental journalist Tatiana announced with sadness that she passed away this morning. They shared that she will be deeply missed and forever remembered.

Before her death, Tatiana shared that her family supported her throughout her fight with her illness.

In an essay for The New Yorker, Tatiana wrote that her parents, brother, and sister have been incredibly supportive over the past year and a half, consistently visiting her in the hospital and helping to raise her children. She noted they’ve remained strong for her while she’s been suffering, shielding her from their own pain, which she deeply appreciates even though she’s aware of their sadness.

For more on the Kennedy family, read on…

Joseph Patrick “Joe” Kennedy married Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald on Oct. 7, 1914.

By 1932, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and his wife had nine children: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., John F. Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward Kennedy.

Born July 25, 1915, Joe Jr. was going to be president, as far as his father was concerned.

At the 1940 Democratic National Convention, he was a delegate and intended to run for Congress after his Navy service. Tragically, the 29-year-old and his co-pilot, Wilford John Willy, died on August 12, 1944. They were carrying explosives on a bombing mission as part of Operation Aphrodite when the explosives unexpectedly detonated.

The bodies of both pilots were never found. Their names are inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, which honors American service members who died in World War II.

John, born on May 29, 1917, began his political career in Congress before becoming a U.S. Senator and eventually winning the presidency in 1960.

He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. They had two children: Caroline Kennedy, born November 27, 1957, and John F. Kennedy Jr., born November 25, 1960.

The couple tragically lost a daughter, Arabella, who was stillborn in 1956. Several years later, their son, Patrick, was born prematurely on August 7, 1963, but sadly lived for only 39 hours.

JFK was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, one of the defining events of the 20th century.

Caroline served as the U.S. ambassador to both Japan during President Obama’s time in office and Australia under President Biden. She married Edwin “Ed” Schlossberg in 1986.

Caroline and Edwin Schlossberg have three children: Rose, born June 25, 1988; Tatiana, born May 5, 1990; and John, nicknamed “Jack,” born January 19, 1993.

TV producer Rose went to Harvard like her mom and married restaurateur Rory McAuliffe in 2022.

Tatiana, a journalist, later discovered that a 2014 article she wrote for the New York Times about a bear found dead in Central Park involved her cousin, RFK Jr. She graduated from Yale and married her college boyfriend, George Moran, in 2017. They have two children: a son, Edwin Jr., born in 2022, and a daughter born in 2024.

Tatiana revealed in a November 2025 essay for The New Yorker that she had been diagnosed with a rare and terminal blood cancer called acute myeloid leukemia. She passed away on December 30th at the age of 35.

Jack, a graduate of both Yale and Harvard (where he earned a law and business degree), gained attention for his lively presence on social media. He spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention and reported on the latest presidential election for Vogue magazine.

In a 2024 interview with Vogue, he shared that his family’s history of helping others motivates him. He feels a strong sense of responsibility to give back and wants to make a difference, both through his long-term goals and his everyday actions.

Jack plans to run for Congress, having announced in November 2025 his intention to represent New York’s 12th district.

 

Before marrying publicist Carolyn Bessette on September 21, 1996, the former first son was widely considered a very desirable bachelor, and was even named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1988.

John F. Kennedy Jr. tragically died in a plane crash on July 16, 1999, mirroring his father’s early death. He was with his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, at the time, bringing immense grief to his family.

Rosemary (at right, with sister Kathleen and mom Rose) was born Sept. 13, 1918.

Rosemary went to a boarding school for students who struggled with learning. However, she also had behavioral problems, and at age 23, her father authorized a prefrontal lobotomy in an attempt to address them.

Rosemary underwent an experimental treatment meant to address mental illness, and while Joe had hoped for a positive outcome, she was left severely disabled. She spent the remainder of her life, until January 7, 2005, in an institution.

I always pictured her, you know? She could have had this amazing, glamorous life, a Kennedy, but maybe a little more… relaxed. It felt like that was within reach. And then, just like that, in a matter of minutes, everything changed. It’s just… gone. I remember Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote about it, and it just stuck with me. It was so fast.

Born Feb. 20, 1920, Kathleen got a kick out of life, hence her jaunty nickname.

She married William Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, in a London ceremony on May 6, 1944. Her mother disapproved of the match because he wasn’t Catholic, so only her brother, Joe Jr., attended the wedding.

A month later, William, a major in the British Army, was killed by a sniper in Belgium.

I was heartbroken to learn about her life. She stayed in England and found love with William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, though he was unfortunately still married at the time. It’s just so tragic – they were both killed in a plane crash on their way to the French Riviera on May 13, 1948, before he could even get a divorce. A truly devastating end to a promising romance.

Eunice was born July 10, 1921.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a passionate supporter of charitable causes and the creator of the Special Olympics, wed Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. on May 23, 1953.

They had five children: Robert “Bobby” Shriver III (born April 28, 1954), Maria Shriver (born November 6, 1955), Timothy (born August 29, 1959), Mark (born February 17, 1964), and Anthony (born July 20, 1965).

Maria Shriver married Arnold Schwarzenegger on April 26, 1986, at the Kennedy family estate in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were the governor and first lady of California from November 2003 to January 2011. Their marriage ended soon after when Arnold revealed he had a son, Joseph Baena, with their family’s housekeeper.

Eunice passed away at the age of 88, leaving behind 19 grandchildren. This included Maria Shriver’s four children from her marriage: Katherine (born December 13, 1989), Patrick (born September 18, 1993), Christina (born July 23, 1991), and Christopher (born September 27, 1997).

Katherine married Chris Pratt on June 8, 2019, and they have three children together: Lyla (born August 6, 2020), Eloise (born May 21, 2022), and Ford (born November 8, 2024). Chris also has a son, Jack (born August 17, 2012), from his previous marriage to Anna Faris.

Patricia, born on May 6, 1924, became connected to the famous Rat Pack when she married Peter Lawford on April 24, 1954.

She and her British actor husband had four children: Christopher Lawford (born 1955), Sydney Maleia Lawford (1956), Victoria Francis Lawford (1958), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford, before their divorce in 1966.

Peter, who passed away in 1984, was a close friend and advisor to his brother-in-law, John F. Kennedy. He’s widely believed to be the one who first introduced JFK to Marilyn Monroe when she visited the home of his sister and her husband in Malibu.

Patricia died in 2006. Her son, Christopher, who had been married three times, passed away in 2018 after a heart attack.

The son known familiarly to the whole country as Bobby Kennedy married Ethel Skakel on June 17, 1950.

They had a large family, with eleven children named Kathleen, Joseph II, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Maxwell, Douglas, and Rory.

I still remember the day everything changed. Ethel was carrying Rory when Bobby… when he was shot. It was June 6th, 1968, just after his amazing win in the California primary. It felt like the world stopped. I mean, he was going to be president, and then… just like that, he was gone. It’s something I’ll never forget, especially knowing Ethel was pregnant with Rory at the time. It just… it breaks my heart even now.

David Kennedy tragically died from a drug overdose in 1984 at just 28 years old. Years later, in 1997, his brother Michael Kennedy died in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. He was 37 and had three children with his wife, Victoria Gifford.

Ethel Kennedy experienced the loss of her husband when her oldest child was just sixteen years old. Despite this, she went on to have a large family, becoming a grandmother to 34 grandchildren. Sadly, she has also outlived two of them: 22-year-old Saoirse Hill, who died in 2019 from an accidental drug overdose, and her 40-year-old granddaughter, Maeve Kennedy McKean, who died in a canoeing accident in 2020. Saoirse was the daughter of Courtney Hill and Paul Hill, while Maeve was the daughter of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and David Townsend.

RFK Jr., born Jan. 17, 1954, is a thrice-married father of six.

He and his first wife, Emily Black, have two children: Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy III, born in 1984, and Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, born in 1988.

They divorced in 1994 after 12 years of marriage. 

RFK III has been married to CIA analyst turned author and TV host Amaryllis Fox since 2017.

The couple have three children: a daughter named Bobby, born January 7, 2019, a son named Cassius Watts Thoreau Kennedy, born August 30, 2021, and Amaryllis’ daughter Zoë from a previous relationship.

 

Okay, so I was reading this interview with him from way back in 2012, and he said something that just stuck with me. He basically said life is all about collecting experiences—the good ones, the bad ones, everything—and the more you gather, the richer your life is. It’s so simple, but it totally gets me, you know? He’s just so insightful!

After Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck in August 2024, even a brief acquaintance with him—as one source described it—suddenly made Kick Kennedy a popular topic online.

A representative for Ben Affleck immediately denied rumors of a romantic relationship, telling TopMob News that the reports about him and Kick are false.

So nothing about being a Kennedy had really changed in a decade. Or a century.

I often get asked what it’s like to be a Kennedy,” she shared with Town & Country. “I honestly don’t know how to answer. It feels strange seeing my name or face in the tabloids – it makes me anxious because it doesn’t feel like the real me; it’s like reading about someone else.”

Despite never meeting her, she felt a connection to the great-aunt she was named after, who had passed away long before her father was even born.

“It’s funny how similar we are,” Kick mused. “She was fun and social and a performer in many ways.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. married Mary Richardson in 1994, and together they had four children: Conor Richardson Kennedy (born July 25, 1994), Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy (born August 22, 1995), William Finbar “Finn” Kennedy (born November 8, 1997), and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy (born July 13, 2001).

The couple were legally separated when Mary died by suicide in 2012.

Father and sons: Conor, Aidan and RFK III.

Despite achieving sudden fame at 18 as a Harvard student – and famously introducing Taylor Swift to his family – Conor has generally kept to himself.

Their relationship didn’t last long—just a few months—but Conor eventually went on to graduate from Georgetown Law School. Still, it generated quite a bit of media attention at the time.

“Taylor Swift’s ex Conor Kennedy” is now engaged to singer Giulia Be.

Kyra, a regular among the high-fashion set, lives in Milan.

In a video released on August 27, 2024, in collaboration with Elle and Bvlgari, she revealed she’s developing a project to honor her mother’s memory.

She reflects on whether she’s fundamentally changed as a person, stating, “Yes, absolutely.” She explains that she was one way as a child, but completely transformed when she grew into adulthood.

RFK Jr. married Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines in 2014.

The actress shares daughter Catherine Young (born March 8, 2004) with ex-husband Paul Young. 

In a 2018 Father’s Day Instagram post, Kick thanked her dad for giving her her many siblings, playfully calling them ‘wacky’.

Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s seventh child has three daughters with her former husband, Andrew Cuomo: twins Mariah Kennedy-Cuomo and Cara Kennedy-Cuomo (born in 1995), and Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo (born in 1997).

Kerry and Andrew married in 1990, but their relationship ended after a separation in 2003 and a divorce finalized in 2005. Andrew served as governor of New York from 2011 to 2021.

Born on February 20, 1928, as the eighth of nine children to Joe and Rose, Jean Kennedy founded the VSA Kennedy Arts Center and later served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland while Bill Clinton was president.

She married Stephen Edward Smith, who worked as a strategist for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, on May 19, 1956. Together, they had four children: sons Stephen Smith Jr. and William Smith, and daughters Amanda Smith and Kym Smith.

Jean died June 17, 2020, having outlived all of her siblings.

Senator Ted Kennedy, known for his share of public controversies, had three children with his first wife, Joan Bennett. They are Kara Kennedy (born February 27, 1960), Edward Kennedy Jr. (born September 26, 1961), and Patrick Kennedy II (born July 14, 1967).

He and Joan divorced in 1982 after 24 years of marriage and he wed Victoria Reggie in 1992.

Kara passed away from a heart attack on September 16, 2011, two years after losing her father. Joan died on October 8, 2025.

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